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Date:      Mon, 9 Aug 2004 08:48:06 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wojciech Puchar <wojtek@tensor.3miasto.net>
To:        "Jay O'Brien" <jayobrien@att.net>
Cc:        FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Swappable Hard drives?
Message-ID:  <20040809084734.P27979@chylonia.3miasto.net>
In-Reply-To: <411712B1.8090701@att.net>
References:  <411712B1.8090701@att.net>

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> Soon I will have two identical 120GB IDE HDs in my FBSD 4.10
> system. One is to be basically a backup drive. Can I write a
> MBR to the second HD and then swap cables when I want to
> boot/run the system from the backup HD, assuming I've used pax
> or dump to make the file systems identical? The "normal"

with identical drive make copy with dd

dd if=/dev/ad0 of=/dev/ad1 bs=64k
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